How James Joyce Made His Name: A Reading of the Final Lacan

by Harari, Roberto; Thurston, Luke

• ISBN13: 9781892746511
• ISBN10: 1892746514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-17
• Publisher: Other Press

Summary

In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, "Le Sinthome," Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics. Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay may offer alternatives to neurotic pain and even psychotic delusions, with Joyce as our subject. This new translation makes the intricacies of Lacan's seminar available to the English-speaking world for the first time. The author's accessible, vigorous prose explains the nuances of Lacanian theory with perfect clarity. In the extraordinary encounter between Lacan and Joyce, Harari reveals unexpected affinities between them both as theorists and writers. It illustrates how literature is the aesthetic domain that is closest to the analytic experience.

Author Biography

Roberto Harari, Ph.D.

Roberto Harari, Ph.D., has been a psychoanalyst in Buenos Aires since 1965. He is a charter member and former President of Mayica-Institucisicoanalca. Since 1986, he has directed the Freud-Lacan Collection in Ediciones Nueva Visi. Harari has published more than 200 articles in international magazines, and is the author of sixteen books. Several have been translated into French and Portuguese.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. xi
Joyce and Lacan: A Quadruple Borromean Heresy	p. 1
Eve in the Labyrinth of Daedalus	p. 37
Epiphanies, [Sigma], Trefoil	p. 71
Jouissances, Responsibility, Riddles: Doing with Know-How	p. 105
Between the Pere-sonnores and the Folded Glove	p. 137
Jeems Jokes, Telepathy, and the Verbal Parasite	p. 171
The Sinthome, Disinvested from the Unconscious	p. 203
Prelude to the Wake of a Faun	p. 243
Foreclosures, False Holes, Suppletions	p. 283
A Table of Joycean Nomination	p. 321
Index	p. 361
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